Build Ole Blue 60 gets a fresh start- EFI and more
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- #143
Sounds like all your problems were related to the converted Toyota distributor.
The fuel pump now is 5/16”-5/16”
Waiting for my call like a fat girl for a prom date.
The fuel pump now is 5/16”-5/16”
Waiting for my call like a fat girl for a prom date.
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Getting it out of the box and onto the engine stand was not super easy alone. @pmccraney showed up and we got it on the stand and flipped to do the oil pan gasket and oil pump.
Look how clean
Look how clean
Wow... that thing is pretty!!
that crate would make a heck of a chuck box...
I haven't looked too much into it, but does that 4plus adapter work with my 1977 FJ55 2F intake setup? I'll be putting the AFI kit on it if all works out in the near future. Area all 2F intake setups the same?
If so, I'd be a buyer.
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Hell no. Gotta.
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Got the oil pan on. The engine stand is money for this. 100% worth it. For the oil pan.
Especially when I remembered I forgot to put the bolt in the oil pump.
We took a break for dinner.
Dinner pause. Cameron and I are about to Stab the tranny on.
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After dinner we settled in and got more work done.
We built the clutch. Put all the accessories that would not be in the way on. Hoses. Etc.
Cameron spent a lot of time getting the coil and the motor lined up for first start. Top dead center and all that jazz.
I plugged the drain hole in he head with a 3/8-5/16” plug. That’s much easier on the stand and not in the truck like I had to on my Pig.
Lou showed up about 8:30 and jumped in to help.
All these hoses are so much easier when the motor is out.
You expect more out of a mechanical engineer at times
Like this when the pressure plate won’t fit on the flywheel right. He just said “Drill the F out of it” so we opened up the dowel holes with a step bit a little. The machine shop where I got it turned buggered them up upon removal.
We stabbed it once without the Throwout bearing so I jumped to work to get the TO on the fork.
I carefully pressed on the new bearing and not until I was finished and the tranny was bolted in did I realize I used the Koyo bearing and not the $100 Toyota OEM on that I got from Beno. I almost cried.
We built the clutch. Put all the accessories that would not be in the way on. Hoses. Etc.
Cameron spent a lot of time getting the coil and the motor lined up for first start. Top dead center and all that jazz.
I plugged the drain hole in he head with a 3/8-5/16” plug. That’s much easier on the stand and not in the truck like I had to on my Pig.
Lou showed up about 8:30 and jumped in to help.
All these hoses are so much easier when the motor is out.
You expect more out of a mechanical engineer at times
Like this when the pressure plate won’t fit on the flywheel right. He just said “Drill the F out of it” so we opened up the dowel holes with a step bit a little. The machine shop where I got it turned buggered them up upon removal.
We stabbed it once without the Throwout bearing so I jumped to work to get the TO on the fork.
I carefully pressed on the new bearing and not until I was finished and the tranny was bolted in did I realize I used the Koyo bearing and not the $100 Toyota OEM on that I got from Beno. I almost cried.
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As for Chef Lou, he came through big fixing my awful job moving the air intake to the passenger side. Super thin metal so he had to add lots of filler. It’s 80% Done and will be so much better than the ricer hose I was using.
Final product. 11 pm. 12 hours in.
Final product. 11 pm. 12 hours in.
Great job and thanks for sharing, it's great to have such good friends with skills !!!
still the KOYO TO bearing? I've done just about the same- installed the old bearing back onto the hub by mistake...caught it before the final stab and fixed it tho...